COVENTRE, John I

More can be added to the previous biography. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 674-5. It was the London mercer John Coventry, one of the executors of Richard Whittington†, whom Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, in the 1420s described as his servant at Burbage and Marlborough: CP40/669, rot. 411d; CPR, 1429-36, p. 503.

In early 1414 Coventre and his putative brother William brought an assize of novel disseisin against a group of local people over a messuage and two stalls, as well as certain rents in Devizes. While their opponents claimed to hold the property by royal grant, the Coventres stated that their kinsman Nicholas Coventre had acquired the holdings from John, Lord Lovell. JUST1/1527, rot. 4.